Carton spice-cabinet.



No. 69|,99.0. Patented lan. 28, |902. A. N. WARREN.

CARTUN SPICE CABINET.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED N. VARREN, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

CARTON SPICE-CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent. N o. 691,990, datedJanuary 28, 1902. Application filed January 3, 1901. Serial NO- 42.02(NO model-l To all whoiit it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED N. WARREN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and 4useful Improvements in Carton Spice-Cabinets;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will .enable others skilled intheart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates toA improvements in cabinets for containing anddelivering cartons of spices, pepper, and the like of different sizesand provided with means for retaining the cartons in differentcompartments and withdrawing oneY carton at a time from a compartment,the cabinet to be placed in a suitable placein a store and employed as aconvenient means of keeping and handling the goods and also serving asan advertising means for the manufacturer of the goods.

The invention consists in certain novel constructions, combinations, and`arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Inthe accompanying drawings, Figure lis a perspective View of a cabinetconstructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a verticalsection taken through one of the compartments and showing theconstruction and arrangement of the operatin g mechanism.

1 in the drawings represents the casing of the cabinet, which isprovided with a series of vertically-arranged compartments 2,ahorizontal base 3, which is preferably extended to form a shelf 4, aseries of rearwardly-projecting extensions or housings 5 for the ac-Vcommodation of the ejectors 6 when the latter are in a retracted orwithdrawn condition,

and a series of apertures or openings rat the lower ends of thecompartments 2 for the withdrawal of the cartons from the respectivecompartments.

The cabinet may be of any suitable dimensions, two or two and a halffeet high by four feet long, and may be constructed of any suitablematerial, but preferably light wood and provided with any suitablenumber of compartments, and all the compartments maybe of the samedimensions; but the apertures 77 at the lower ends of the same arepreferably varied, so as to admit of dierentsized cartons-aa forinstance, one-ounce packages or two-ounce packages-beingwithdrawn fromthe respective compartments. The cabinet is also provided with a hingedcover 8, and the rear compartments 5 are also preferably 'provided withhinged covers 9. The hinged cover S prevents the dust from getting intothe cabinet andadmits of the insertion `of new packages into thecabinet. The hinged covers 9 facilitate the insertion and removal of theejector 6 into position within the cabinet and its removal for repairs.The front of the case may be provided with glass, if desired, to excludedust, the lower front ends of the compartments of course being left openfor the forcing out of the packages by the ejectors 6 onto the shelf 4.

For holding the packages 10 within the compartment and yet admit oftheir being seen from the outside and to disclose how many packages arestill in each compartment each wall 11 of the cabinet has attached toits front edge a vertically-arranged strip 12, extending on oppositesides of each wall or partition 11, with the exception of the end wallsor partitions, in which case the strip extends only in one direction.

The ejector 6 is made of slightly less height than the height of apackage to be removed, so that only one package will be engaged at atime and the ejector will be free to be moved back and forth. A recess14 is provided in the rear of the ejector, in which recess the spring 13is located and connected by one of its ends to said ejector, while itsother end is connected to the wall16 of the cabinet, which is therearvert-ical wall of the compartment 17. By this construction andarrangement the spring can be accommodated within the aperture 14 whenthe ejector 6 is in its returned condition and will also serve to holdthe ejector in said condition until it is drawn forward by theoperating-rod 18, connected to said ejector, and automaticallywreturnthe ejector into the chamber or compartment 17 as soon as the hand ofthe operator is removed frorn the rod 18. The bottom or iioor 3 of thecabinet is provided with a series of longitudinally-extending slots 15.Within each slot an upturned projection of'an operating-rod 18 works,the said upturned pro- ICO jection being attached to the under side ofthe ejector 6, the rods being held iny position and guided in theirmovements by passing through apertures provided in the cabinet, asclearly shown in the drawings. The provision of the shelf 4 forms areceptacle for retaining a package or packages as they are Withdrawnfrom the cabinet, and thus avoids any liability of the packagesaccidentally falling on the iioor or requiring the operator toimmediately withdraw a package as soon as it is ejected from thecabinet. It will also be observed that with my construction andarrangement the ejectors are never drawn outside of the cabinet whenbeing operated, but are always contained within the cabinet, and it willfurther be observed that the ejectors are made of such asize and solocated as to always push out a single package at a time and that as theejectors are automatically returned to the compartments 17 otherpackages are automatically lowered to positions in front of theejectors.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desiredto be secured by Letters Patent, is-

A cabinet for containing and delivering cartons, comprising a verticalhousing and a rearwardly-projecting horizontal housing, said housingshaving compartments formed in them which are open at the top, hingedcovers for closing both of the said housings, the compartments ofthehorizont-al housing opening into the lower ends of the compartmentsin the vertical housing, and the vertical housings havingoutlet-openings at their lower ends, a series of ejectors arranged inthe compartments of the horizontal housing, a rod for pulling eachejector forwardly into the lowerjend of the vertical compartments, andsprings connecting the ejectors with the rear Wall of the horizontalhousing for automatically returning the ejectors in the said housingaftera carton has been forced out of one of the vertical compartments,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflx my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

ALFRED N. VARREN.

Witnesses:

JOHN L. MURRAY, EDWIN E. EDGE.

